Category: JavaScript

Are you comfortable passing functions around, returning them from other functions, and generally enjoy the pleasures of higher-order functions? Learn in one hour how to implement ideas from functional programming in JavaScript. I will show you how you can significantly up your game by leaving loops behind and embracing functions …

In the modern web, user interfaces are expected to be rich, highly responsive, and available anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Round-trip server-side HTML rendering doesn’t fit the bill any longer and numerous JavaScript frameworks have stepped forward to simplify development of client-side user-interfaces. With so many great options available, …

Thi presentation deep-dives into how the NFL leverages YUI to provide a rich, trackable and monetizable video experience to its users regardless of device. YUI is a free, open source JavaScript and CSS library for building richly interactive web applications.

Performance. A word programmers use so often it’s almost a buzzword. But in our world of web apps written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript it can mean many different, sometimes contradictory things. In this presentation I will talk about the most common targets of web app performance, the techniques used …

Our team has learned great lessons while developing Fashion Tale, a hidden object game entirely in HTML5. The process taught us several tricks, pitfalls, and successful workarounds. This talk covers using hardware accelerated graphics, responding effectively to touch events and gestures, and creating actionable feeds and message centers using jQuery.data().